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8.10 Apna Hi Char Samajhiye (Make Yourself at Home)
A programme for listeners from India and Pakistan
8.10 The Eve-Witness
(on VHF and Ramsgate) Reports from Britain and overseas
(Repeated: Monday. 9.20 am)
8.40 Sunday Papers
8.50 Programme news
8.55 Weather

JANET PRICE (soprano) ST DEINIOL SINGERS
BETHESDA LADIES CHOIR
Section of the GWYNEDD SINGERS LLlTHFAEN AND DISTRICT CHORAL SOCIETY
PENRHYN MALE VOICE CHOIR accompanied by MENNA LEYSHON WILLIAM BACON , FFRANCON THOMAS Introduced by Die HUGHES
Arranged and conducted by JAMES WILLIAMS

Contributors

Accompanied By:
Menna Leyshon
Accompanied By:
William Bacon
Accompanied By:
Ffrancon Thomas
Introduced By:
Die Hughes
Conducted By:
James Williams

from Holy Trinity Church, Leamington Spa: conducted by CANON E. J. C. HASELDEN assisted by THE REV D. D. J. TOOBY Psalm 2
Lessons: Isaiah 41, vv 21-29; 1 John 1 to 2 v 6
Anthem: A Carol of Adoration (Edgar Petman )
Hymns (A and M Rev): Songs of praise the angels sang (369); To us a child of royal birth (711; Put thou thy trust in God (310)
Organist ANTHONY CALDICOTT

Contributors

Unknown:
D. D. J. Tooby
Unknown:
Edgar Petman
Organist:
Anthony Caldicott

The One O'Clock News leads off this 60-minute up-to-the-minute report on the world around us, with the latest news the background to the news, and the people in the news presented by Anthony Howard
Editor ANDREW BOYLE
A World at One production

Contributors

Presented By:
Anthony Howard
Editor:
Andrew Boyle

in Co Durham
Members of the Coxhoe and Bowburn Garden Society. Co Durham, put their questions to FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL question-master
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN
Produced by KENNETH FORD

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Sowerbutts
Question-Master:
Alan Gemmell
Produced By:
Kenneth Ford

by LEO TOLSTOY
A dramatisation in 20 episodes from the translation by LOUISE MAUDE
AND AYLMER MAUDE edited by MICHAEL BAKEWELL Executive producer RONALD MASON
Part 1: St Petersburg, 1805 adapted by MICHAEL BAKEWELL Principal characters:
Directed by RONALD MASON

Contributors

Unknown:
Leo Tolstoy
Translation By:
Louise Maude
Translation By:
Aylmer Maude
Edited By:
Michael Bakewell
Producer:
Ronald Mason
Adapted By:
Michael Bakewell
Directed By:
Ronald Mason
Tolstoy:
Denys Hawthorne
Pierre Bezukhov:
David Buck
Natasha Rostova:
Kate Binchy
Andrei Bolkonsky:
Martin Jarvis
Lise Bolkonskaya:
Anna Cropper
Nicolai Rostov:
Christopher Guinee
Hippolyte Kuragin:
Jeremy Clyde
Anna Scherer:
Madi Hedd
Vasili Kuragin:
James Thomason
Princess Drubetskaya:
Daphne Newton
Fedya Dolokhov:
Sean Barrett
Countess Rostova:
Ilona Ference
Count Ilya Rostov:
David March
Madame Karagina:
Margot Boyd
Sonya:
Patricia Gallimore
Boris Drubetskoy:
John Rye

Six famous trials heard in the Central Criminal Court selected and presented at the microphone by Edgar Lustgarten
1: Rex v Lieut Malcolm: 1917 Lt Malcolm came home on leave from the Western Front to find he had reason to suppose his wife unfaithful. He admitted shooting her lover and was tried for murder. Sir John Simon 's defence was masterly.

Contributors

Unknown:
Edgar Lustgarten
Unknown:
Sir John Simon

A magazine of special interest to blind listeners
Aids to Eating: new inventions New Year Resolutions: GEORGE MILLER reports on the plans of some organisations of the blind Introduced by DAVID SCOTT BLACKHALL
Produced by THENA HESHEL

Contributors

Unknown:
George Miller
Introduced By:
David Scott Blackhall
Produced By:
Thena Heshel

From the stage of Sadler's Wells Theatre, Rosebery Avenue, David Franklin introduces a programme of favourite music from opera and ballet
MARGARET NEVILLE (SOpranO) ELIZABETH SIMON (soprano)
ANN HOWARD (mezzo-soprano) BBC CHORUS
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conducted by VILEM TAUSKY
Produced by ANTHONY PHILPOTT including music from
Smetana The Bartered Bride Verdi II Trovatore
Prokofiev The Love of Three Oranges
Strauss Der Rosenkavalier
(Part of a public concert presented by the BBC in association with the Governors of the Sadler's Wells Foundation)
(Margaret Neville and Ann Howard broadcast by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Co)

Contributors

Introduces:
David Franklin
Soprano:
Margaret Neville
Soprano:
Elizabeth Simon
Leader:
Arthur Leavins
Conducted By:
Vilem Tausky
Produced By:
Anthony Philpott
Unknown:
Margaret Neville
Unknown:
Ann Howard

RICHARD CHURCH. CBE appeals on behalf of St Nicholas, Conewdon
Funds are needed for urgent repairs to the porch and roof of this 15th-century church.
Donations, preferably, by crossed po or cheque, to: Richard Church , [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Church

by JANE AUSTEN dramatised as a 13-part serial by JOHN TYDEMAN with ' Emma Woodhouse. handsome, clever, and rich. with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly 21 years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.' Narrated by Rachel Gurney Part 1
Produced by JOHN TYDEMAN (Repeated: Tuesday, 3.0 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jane Austen
Unknown:
John Tydeman
Unknown:
Emma Woodhouse.
Produced By:
John Tydeman
Emma:
Suzanne Neve
Mr Woodhouse:
Lockwood West
Mr Knightley:
Simon Lack
Mrs Weston:
Joan Matheson
Harriet Smith:
Pamela Moiseiwitsch

Archbishop Lord Fisher of Lambeth
99th Archbishop of Canterbury, 1945-61
Lord Fisher, now curate of the village of Trent in Dorset. talks to HAROLD ROGERS about his life as Archbishop of Canterbury, and recalls some of the joyful and sad occasions during the time of his life he lived at Lambeth Palace.
Produced by HAROLD ROGERS (Extendedversion: Fri,4.0pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Harold Rogers
Produced By:
Harold Rogers

A sequence of music by Beethoven, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms
HEATHER HARPER (soprano)
JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano) JOHN MITCHINSON (tenor)
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone) BASSETTO TRIO
DAVID MARTIN (violin)
IRENE RICHARDS (violin) EILEEN GRAINGER (Viola) BERNARD RICHARDS (cello) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
(Part of an Invitation Concert given in the Central Hall, Coventry, on 7 June 1962)

Contributors

Soprano:
Heather Harper
Mezzo-Soprano:
Janet Baker
Tenor:
John Mitchinson
Baritone:
John Shirley-Quirk
Violin:
David Martin
Violin:
Irene Richards
Viola:
Eileen Grainger
Cello:
Bernard Richards
Piano:
Paul Hamburger

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